+1 for including timeliness in analytics. And reporting rate by compulsory data 
elements also sounds like a good addition.

Regards
Olav


> 25. aug. 2015 kl. 09.03 skrev Adedapo Adejumo <dapsyjo...@gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi Lars,
> This could be a good opportunity to take a closer look at compulsory data 
> elements and moving other elements of complete dataset registrations 
> (timeliness) to the analytics tables. The reporting rate by compulsory data 
> elements in the reporting rate summary "doesn't work" - a bug was reported a 
> while back on this.
> Thanks. 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:larshe...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Bharath,
> 
> agree with what Calle says above about simply doing values / fields for 
> completeness - might not be very meaningful.
> 
> Also, the approach of storing the value count I don't think will be robust 
> since in many implementations the forms are not locked after completion, 
> meaning the count will be off if additional data is entered or removed.
> 
> To me, the ideal solution here is to implement this in analytics and base it 
> on compulsory data elements. We already have reporting rates based on 
> completeness registrations in analytics. We could extend this with 
> completeness based on captured values vs compulsory fields (like we do for 
> the "reporting rate summary" under reports). 
> 
> That way, you can now take advantage of the flexibility of analytics in terms 
> of dimensions (rows, columns, filters), relative periods, org units etc, 
> without having to re-implement all that. You could then build your app on top 
> of the analytics api.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Lars
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Bharath <chbhara...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:chbhara...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi Calle & Adedapo,
> 
> Thanks for your views.
> 
> @Calle, currently in India we are following the first option entering Zeros 
> for the services that are not applicable though personally I wont recommend 
> it as it tremendously increases database size. I can see 70% of data is zeros 
> in many of the state applications. The second option can workout for 
> instances where we have some legacy but not for newly started ones.
> 
> I agree with Adedapo to start with calculating coverage for compulsory 
> dataelements.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Adedapo Adejumo <dapsyjo...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:dapsyjo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi
> Thanks Calle for bringing in the data management dimension.....
> Definitely a tricky issue with no easy solution.
> As a start, it will be a great idea to actually get the current functionality 
> of tagging "compulsory data elements" for datasets and assessing completeness 
> based on that selection to work and then work on making this smarter - the 
> ability to define compulsory data elements for organisation unit groups . 
> The customization of data entry forms along the lines of service 
> availability/provision will be the gold standard but implementation may be 
> tricky in some circumstances and environments. 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedb...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:calle.hedb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Bharath,
> 
> The exact method for calculating this aside - it seems to me that a 
> fundamental limitation in your coverage definition is that it does not 
> consider whether the data set is an accurate representation of the services 
> each facility provide. Or in other words, you might have a data set of 100 
> data elements used for let us day 200 facilities - in many/most countries, it 
> would be uncommon for all 200 facilities to provide ALL the services 
> represented in those 100 data elements.
> 
> The net result is that you data entry coverage status will most likely always 
> be well under 100% - even if every single facility report fully for every 
> data element covering services that they DO provide.
> 
> There are at least two options for dealing with this:
> 
> 1. You can enforce the capture of a zero for all services a facility do not 
> provide.
> 2. You generate the data entry coverage rate based on Filled data items 
> divided by "Actual" data items - the latter derived from a longer term (12-18 
> months) pattern analysis, where you can set a threshold for when a data item 
> is regarded as "active" (meaning that service is actually regularly provided) 
> for a specific facility.
> 
> The main disadvantage of the first method is that managers will not know 
> whether a 0 means that service is not provided at all, or whether it IS 
> available but that there were no cases for that month.
> 
> We (South Africa) are currently discussing a related method for the 
> customisation of the data entry form itself. SA is using relatively 
> standardised data sets across a large variety of facilities (e.g. a "Clinic" 
> might vary from a single-nurse facility doing basic preventative care only to 
> a large one-stop facility with 10-20 nurses and a few doctors providing a 
> nearly full range of PHC services). Users would like to have a way of 
> automatically reducing the size of the data entry form to only show data 
> elements relevant for each facility - and one suggestion has been to only 
> display data elements that have actual data stored for the previous 12-18 
> months (with a "More" button to display additional data elements when 
> required).
> 
> We should work towards a more uniform model for handling these data entry and 
> coverage aspects - a model that BOTH provide feedback on data entry 
> completeness AND feedback to managers on what services are actually provided 
> at which facilities. The first aspect is primarily an HMIS issue - the second 
> aspect is the more fundamental service delivery issue.
> 
> Regards
> Call
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 August 2015 at 23:51, Bharath <chbhara...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:chbhara...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In India, we have a functionality called Data Entry Status which is to 
> calculate the coverage of dataentry. For instance a health clinic / facility 
> which has a monthly dataset of 100 dataelements in which 70 dataelements have 
> been filled then we show 70% as data entry status for that clinic. Data entry 
> status coverage can be calculated for multiple orgunits and for multiple 
> periods for a selected dataset. This functionality was developed as a Java 
> module. Now we are working on converting this functionality into an App.
> 
> While working on App we had thought of 2 options to get this functionality 
> working:
> 
> Option 1 is getting all data for each clinic and each period using webapi 
> request and divide by number of dataelements (including category option 
> combos) and mulitplying with 100 to get percentage for each clinic and for 
> each period. Formula is 
> 
> Filled Data Items
> -------------------------   X 100
> Total Data Items
> 
> But making webapi request to get all data seems expensive as we really don't 
> need data we just need the count.
> 
> So another option (Option2) is extending Complete Data Set Registration 
> functionality, when user clicks on complete button we can also calculate how 
> many items are filled and we can store in the same object. Meaning we can add 
> one more property / column to Complete DataSet Registration say 
> filledDataItemCount. 
> 
> We would prefer this option, please let us know if this extension is 
> agreeable to be part of core, if yes we can work on this and can send patch 
> file.
> 
> If there are any other solutions please share, Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
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